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Funding Circle is the world’s leading lending platform focused exclusively on small businesses, matching established and creditworthy businesses who want to borrow with investors who want to lend in the U.S., the U.K., and Continental Europe. We help accredited and institutional investors lend money to American small businesses looking for financing to grow their business, create new jobs, and ultimately accelerate economic growth.

By combining cutting edge technology with industry-leading risk management models, Funding Circle provides small businesses with access to fast, affordable, and transparent financing and investors with the opportunity to access attractive returns through an online marketplace.

Community Investment Management (“CIM”), an impact investment firm focused on marketplace lending, will finance an additional $100 million in loans to businesses originated through Funding Circle in the U.S.

Leading online credit marketplaces Funding Circle, Lending Club and Prosper Marketplace today announced the launch of the Marketplace Lending Association, a U.S. non-profit membership organization created to promote responsible business practices and sound public policy to benefit borrowers and investors.

The Funding Circle SME Income Fund will today begin lending to small businesses through Funding Circle’s marketplaces in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, helping small businesses access the financing they need to grow.

Funding Circle helps minority-owned small businesses navigate the evolving credit sector through a partnership with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Funding Circle has joined forces with Zencap, to create the first truly global marketplace lending platform. The deal sees Funding Circle expand into Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, alongside its existing operations in the UK and US.

The small businesses who already use H&R Block for bookkeeping, payroll, taxes and other accounting services now have access to a new online service: business loans up to $500,000, thanks to a new referral partnership with Funding Circle.

To protect Main Street from predatory lending, Funding Circle and a coalition of industry leaders announced the first-ever consensus on responsible small business lending practices in Washington DC today.

Funding Circle, the world’s leading marketplace for small business loans, has bolstered its global risk and analytics team today and announced record growth in Q2, with approximately $235 million (~£150 million) lent to businesses globally.

From bolstering inventory levels to hiring more people, thousands more American small businesses will have better access to quality, affordable growth capital thanks to a new partnership between Funding Circle, the world’s leading marketplace for small business loans, and the National Small Business Association (NSBA).

Funding Circle today announced it has raised $150 million (~£100 million) in equity capital, in a round led by DST Global, with participation from Baillie Gifford, a fund managed by BlackRock, Sands Capital Ventures and Temasek. Goldman Sachs acted as exclusive placement agent for the oversubscribed round. The new funding will be used to consolidate the UK and US markets and fuel further growth.

Funding Circle, the world’s leading online marketplace for small business loans, today announces that Victory Park Capital, an asset management firm based in the US and an active lender to UK and European companies, will finance up to $420 million in loans to small businesses originated through Funding Circle both in the UK and US over the next three years.

Funding Circle, the global small business loan marketplace, has become the first and only major peer–to–peer lender in the U.S. to offer individual investors the opportunity to invest in secured small business loans with the launch of its new Fractional Loan Marketplace.

Funding Circle, the world’s leading online marketplace for small business lending, today announced it has acquired LeapPay, an online lender that provides affordable financing to small businesses based on their accounts receivable.

Funding Circle, the world’s leading online marketplace for business lending which has lent more than half a billion dollars to over 5,000 businesses, today announced it has raised $65 million in a Series D funding round led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors, Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital.